Murder in the retention basin
Jossi Wieler & Sergio Morabito direct Lohengrin in Vienna (***½) [stream]
In his Wagner monograph, Michael Tanner argued that modern productions too often “domesticate” Wagner, bringing his dramas down from the exalted sphere in which the music has placed them, into the world of human trivia, usually in order to make a “political statement” which…
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